Dutch Partner Technology Advisors blog : Business Intelligence

Dynamics NAV 2009 Reporting

Freek — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:18:00 GMT

Enige tijd geleden hebben we een training gegeven over de uitbreidbaarheid van de Role Tailored Client. Een van de andere aandachtspunten waar behoefte aan blijkt te zijn is uitleg van de nieuwe rapportage mogelijkheden met behulp van SQL Server Reporting Server in combinatie met NAV 2009.

Die training is beschikbaar o.a. bij Enquire IT.
http://www.enquireit.nl/?Trainingen:Standaard_NAV:Report_Design

Enjoy

Performance Management Specialization Exam update

akieft — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:51:11 GMT

As mentioned in an earlier post, the current Performance Management Specialization exam (70-556) will be replaced. This exam will release with the next systems update for exams, targeted at August 22nd, 2009. Partners, please continue your readiness activities so that they can sit for the exam as soon as it releases.

-Andre

Financial Planning Accelerator (PPS Planning)

akieft — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:43:54 GMT

Should you have missed this news due to vacations (just like I did), here it is again:

Microsoft is pleased to make available the Financial Planning Accelerator (FPA). The FPA is source code and project files derived from the PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning module. Based on requests from customers and partners, we are making this code available on a no-cost, individual license. This is unsupported source code that customers and partners can use to support or change PerformancePoint Server Planning functionality. Derived object code files can be distributed to end users with Microsoft SharePoint Server Enterprise Client Access Licenses.

The full story can be read here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/06/18/financial-planning-accelerator-announced.aspx

-Andre

Project Server 2007 en Dynamics AX 2009 demo image

Freek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:26:00 GMT

Voor onze partners hebben we inmiddels een VPC waarin Project Server 2007 geintegreerd is met Dynamics AX 2009. Cristophe Fiessinger, dank!.

http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2009/06/23/microsoft-dynamics-ax-2009-and-microsoft-project-server-2007-demo-image.aspx

Performance Point Server Exam 70-556 will be replaced

akieft — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:31:00 GMT

As you probably already know by the recent announcement, the monitoring and analytics components of PPS will merge into SharePoint 2010 next year and we will stop investigating in the planning module from PPS. PPS will receive one additional service pack (SP3) in the summer of 2009, with nothing planned beyond that.

It recently came to my attention (thanks to a partner) that the current Performance Management Specialization exam (70-556) will be replaced, because it is largely focused on the Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting functionality within Performance Point Server. This exam is no longer relevant and will be replaced by a new, updated exam in the summer of 2009.

For more information see: https://partner.microsoft.com/global/program/competencies/msppbusinessintelligence/40043177

-Andre

All you need to know on SQL 2008 and Dynamics Licensing - FAQ document

Anouk Thomas — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:13:00 GMT

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/pricing/announcements/MD_SQL08RunTime...(read more)

BPIO University 2009 materials

akieft — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:16:21 GMT

The BPIO University 2009 materials have just been released. Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) University 2009 Instructor-led Training Collateral for Collaboration Track Brief Description Training Collateral for Delivering Business...(read more)

First post by Andre

akieft — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:24:00 GMT

Hi all,

This is Andre Kieft from the Dutch PTS team. So let me first introduce myself and then see if I can share some useful info with you.

Almost 9 years I've been at Microsoft now and started off in the Product Support Services (PSS) group. Here I supported products like Office 2000, Windows NT/2000, SMS 1.2/2.0, Exchange 2000/2003 and last not but not least SharePoint 2001/2003/2007. This last product I really liked and determined that this was the future for me. I stuck with it and became a team member of the MOSS beta team for a few months. This was a really great experience! After this I moved into a TechLead role where I coordinated the overall SharePoint support quality and customer satisfaction throughout EMEA. Just at the moment SharePoint 2007 went RTM I moved into the Services Group within Microsoft as an IW Consultant. In this role I really learned a lot and gained a lot of customer experience. The most important thing I learned when implementing a SharePoint solution, is that technology is often not the problem, but rather other business related matters like setting up requirements, relating back to business goals, setting up processes and taxonomies etc. As of May 1st this year I started as a IW Partner Technology Specialist here at Microsoft. In this role I will be mainly focused on partner readiness. Here is my official role description:

With focus on IW and business productivity products, the Partner Technology Specialist - Biz Prod is a specialized role intended to both enable and support partner success in the technical pre-sales process. The job’s primary purpose is that of enabling partner presales capability and co-selling on qualified opportunities. Some of the activities a PTS will engage in include: selecting and enabling high-potential “growth” partners for in-depth capacity/skills development, working in active sales engagements with partners on well-qualified opportunities and delivering presales presentations at one-to-many breadth-partner events.

My focus for this fiscal year will mainly be on SharePoint, BI and Search. As Microsoft is quite new to the BI market, I'm really looking forward engaging with partners in this area. And with our new FAST acquisition I will expect search to become really hot.

Just some other personal notes: Today I turned 32 (what a coincidence ), I have a wife and daughter and when I still have some time left, I like to watch movies and play xbox games. I also try to stay healthy by playing squash with some Microsoft colleagues once a week.

Anyway, enough about me. Let me share an interesting new BI whitepaper link with you:

Empower Your People with Self-Service Business Intelligence
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ebc35869-9982-4acf-bfd6-8923c9464465&DisplayLang=en
This white paper reviews current trends and challenges and explores the advantages of an appropriate and effective BI solution in an ERP environment. It also discusses how Microsoft Dynamics® AX, along with other Microsoft technologies and integrated programs—such as Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server—can help organizations harness the potential of information, use it to empower everyone in the organization and supply chain, and turn the resulting insight into competitive advantage.